On the brink: as famine looms, world leaders must pay up and deliver political solutions to save lives 19 May 2017 As famine takes hold in South Sudan and threatens to spread to northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen, world leaders must immediately step up to fully fund the United Nations’ appeal for $6.3 billion.
Ebola funds impossible to track 31 January 2016 Six months after the International Conference on Ebola Recovery in New York, at least $1.9 billion worth of promised funds have not been delivered and scant information is available about the remaining $3.9 billion. Global leaders are failing to honor their promises to communities devastated by Ebola in West Africa as $5.8 billion of pledged recovery funds proving almost impossible to track.
World Bank must lead efforts to raise $1.7 billion to improve Ebola-hit countries’ health care 15 April 2015 The World Bank and international donors must find $1.7 billion to improve dangerously inadequate health systems in Ebola-affected countries said Oxfam.
Oxfam volunteers go door-to-door to prevent Ebola spread 6 November 2014 Hundreds of local volunteers are helping Oxfam to provide support and information to more than 400,000 people living in Ebola-affected communities in West Africa to stop the spread of the disease.
Ebola: Oxfam warns on gaps in the number of laboratories and more foreign medical teams are needed 31 October 2014 Today (Friday 31st October) marks the half way point in the UN’s Ebola response plan for West Africa which aims to bring the outbreak under control by the end of November. Since October 1st, we have seen some positive and encouraging steps. For example, pledges have reached almost $1 billion and several nations have offered military and other support.
Oxfam reaction to EU leaders’ response to Ebola crisis 24 October 2014 At today’s EU summit, European leaders collectively pledged to raise their financial contribution to help respond to the Ebola crisis, bringing Europe’s total commitment to €1 billion.
More needs to be done to stop the spread of Ebola 16 October 2014 Oxfam is warning that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will not be contained unless more is done to prevent new infections.
South Sudan: aid agencies warn of famine next year as upsurge in fighting imminent 6 October 2014 Agencies fear recent improvements will be wiped out as the number of severely hungry people will rise by one million in first three months of 2015.